I added twitter to the sidebar of the blog. (:

I've created a new room for discussion about the blog: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/884/tex-blog-editor-room

The idea is that interested authors/readers can make suggestions directly about the blog without the risk of being lost in the 'noise' here

How is the TeX Live 2011 installing going? Everyone happy?

Worked very well for me.

@MartinScharrer All's well; I've installed MacTeX on a machine yesterday. On this I already had installed it with the test version: no updates for tlmgr, still. Everything seems OK.

@MartinScharrer time/total: 01:46/01:18:00; (affordable) US Internet connections are slow...

I downloaded the TeX Live 2011 iso. It took about 2:40h.

Does TeXLive supports updating under Windows with 'tlmgr' as well?

@MartinScharrer Yes, presuming you mean updating TL2011 packages and not from TL2010 to TL2011 (which needs a new install)

I always use the command line version of tlmgr

@JosephWright Thanks, I just got a bug report for tikz-timing and he stated "Worked with TeXLive2009 but not with 2010 or 2011." Apparently he doesn't know that there are mostly independent and the packages in TeXLive can be updated.

I was doing something on someone else's windows computer, and I got really frustrated that I couldn't use awk or sed from its command line. And none of my keyboard shortcuts were the same (obviously). It was a lot more disorienting than I expected...

@Seamus it's very frustrating indeed! In my Windows machine, I need to have either MSys/MinGW or CygWin, otherwise I can't do anything. =P

@PauloCereda I guess I'm rather different - I tend to do things the 'Windows way' on other OSs

@PauloCereda Aha! Cygwin looks like exactly the tool I should put on there next time I have to work in windows...

So I find the lack of Flag-E rather annoying on Linux

What's flag-E?

@Seamus Brings up Windows Explorer

Similarly Flag-R brings up the 'Run' dialog

'Flag' is the Windows key (which looks like a flag, obviously)

Oh right. Surely it's possible to have linux do this without too much work?

@JosephWright On Linux that key is typically called “Super”.

@Seamus Probably it is: I've never looked that hard, but know that this is not the standard behaviour in Ubuntu

@JosephWright That's [Alt]+[F2] on (Gnome) linux

@Caramdir As I said, I've never looked too hard :-)

But I agree it is frustrating when thinks aren't the same "out of the box"

(On my Mac, Cmd-N opens a new Finder window, and as the key is in about the same place I find this not too bad!)

@Seamus: you can have even a whole tex install inside your cygwin environment!

@PauloCereda I wonder if you can run Wine inside cygwin. Or the other way around...

(I use Linux occasionally, mainly for testing stuff. I always seem to run into issues with stuff not 'just working')

Not sure how to start the file manager, as usually navigate with Gnome Do.

@Seamus that'll be cool =P

@JosephWright Found a way to do that! System preferences, Keyboard, Shortcuts, then add a new shortcut with flag+E keys combination and with nautilus as command to be executed!

@PauloCereda Great - when I'm at my Ubuntu system next I'll try it out :-)

@JosephWright It worked in my Fedora 15 machine with GNOME 3. Well, for some reason, my flag key isn't mapped (I tried with ctrl+alt+E), but I believe my notebook is the one to blame. =P

On the latest ubuntu, the flag key opens up the fancy unity interface thing. Not a big fan of it myself...

@Seamus No, I'm not keen either. I've not tried the 'flag' key since I updated Ubuntu - I'll have to experiment

Unfortunately, in the Gnome world we are fated to deal with either Unity or G3. Or we could give KDE4 a try (ouch).

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@Jin: thanks, it looks very good!

Indeed! Thanks a lot!

@Jin Great work!

I updated the TeX Live ad now.

@JosephWright That's usually my reason for preferring Linux over Windows! Stuff on Linux just works whereas I always feel that I'm fighting Windows.